See me this week over at the Diabetes Online Community website:
The “Featured Blogger” series is one innovation introduced by Gina Capone when she took over management of the grassroots online community site a few months ago. It’s a really neat way to get to know who’s behind all those hundreds of cool diabetes blogs, and why they do what they do. Thanks, Gina. And see y’all there, I hope!…
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As many of you know, I’ve taken on Health Design as a platform of advocacy. And it happened almost by accident, when I had the inspiration to pen that Open Letter to Steve Jobs back in April of ’07. It was a tongue-in-cheek call-to-action for the gurus of consumer design to get together with the providers of medical devices and start making them smaller, slicker, more personalizable — in short, more like the iPod.
I’m happy…
OK, so it took me over an hour to read through this week’s 60-some-odd responses to the diabetes police. This was, in part, due to the head cold I picked up over Thanksgiving weekend. Blah. But the real reason was because the answers to this week’s Holiday Survival Sweepstakes query were so darn entertaining! I had to go back and re-read a bunch, and make notes for myself, because I am going to be using…
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Diabetes Awareness Month has drawn to a close. Of course, we can only hope that all the press releases and outreach programs have made a difference.
Before it’s all over I wanted to share with you this month’s JDRF Blogger Rountable, which features a set of us very vocal D-Bloggers answering topical questions each month. You guessed it — this month we talked about Diabetes Awareness efforts, and what that all means to us.
Some fave…
So how did you hold up during Thanksgiving dinner? Darn it, I’m a bit late posting this, but in case you’re still up against some very large meals this weekend, have look at John Crowley’s useful Tips for Getting Through Thanksgiving with Diabetes. I especially like the notes on What to Do If You Blow It: “Don’t let one mistake at Thanksgiving spiral into five weeks of high blood sugar… from Thanksgiving all the way…
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